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The Online Edition of the Annandale High School Newspaper.

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The Online Edition of the Annandale High School Newspaper.

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Student views on education: Schools focus too much on busywork

The public school system works great for kids who are all about being in the system of it.

The setup for public school helps those of us who are already good workers. I say workers because I wouldn’t say that school rewards intelligence as much as it does work. 

Busy work seems to be a large factor of public schools, at least up until the time kids hit their junior or senior of high school. 

On one hand, busy work is a way of keeping students engaged during class and arguably helps them learn the material. On the other hand, it detrimentally affects students who can understand the material without repeating it over and over.

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One can argue that the advent of IB and AP helped solve the busy work problem, but again, neither IB nor AP even show up until high-school students’ junior year. 

In addition to that, IB masquerades as a program that promotes abstract thinking while still adhering to a rather concrete rubric. In school we are told to think outside the box while at the same time being chained into one. 

The double standard of it is really a problem with the school system as a whole, a problem I can only assume pervades into other countries given IB’s international status. 

As a whole, the school system likely needs reform, but there isn’t really a reformed system as an example, and starting from scratch is a difficult proposition.

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Student views on education: Schools focus too much on busywork